Tex. Family Code § 264.181
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 264.181, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 264.181. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this subchapter:
(1) "Catchment area" has the meaning assigned by Section 264.152.
(2) "Community-based care" means the provision of child welfare services in accordance with state and federal child welfare goals by a community-based nonprofit or local governmental entity under the pilot program.
(3) "Eligible rural region" means a catchment area for which the department requested but did not receive bids, proposals, or other applicable expressions of interest to implement community-based care under Subchapter B-1 in which at least two-thirds of the counties comprising the area have a population of 50,000 or less.
(4) "Pilot program" means a rural community-based care pilot program implemented under this subchapter.
(1) "Catchment area" has the meaning assigned by Section 264.152.
(2) "Community-based care" means the provision of child welfare services in accordance with state and federal child welfare goals by a community-based nonprofit or local governmental entity under the pilot program.
(3) "Eligible rural region" means a catchment area for which the department requested but did not receive bids, proposals, or other applicable expressions of interest to implement community-based care under Subchapter B-1 in which at least two-thirds of the counties comprising the area have a population of 50,000 or less.
(4) "Pilot program" means a rural community-based care pilot program implemented under this subchapter.
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